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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Role Frequency In EA Groups

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Playbook:The EA Method Playbook

Develop A Business-Centered Enterprise Architecture That Boosts Agility

Faced with continuous change — from technology innovations, new markets, and competitive shifts — businesses must become more agile. Sustainable business agility, the ability to...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Communicate EA Capabilities Companywide

Change Management: The EA Practice Playbook

This report provides an approach to formulating and implementing an enterprise architecture (EA) communication program that eliminates the guesswork and uncertainty that usually surround such...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:The Forrester/TechTarget Shows Stronger Pressure For An ESB Purchase

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Build A Business Architecture Program Road Map

Road Map: The Business Architecture Playbook

Too often, business architecture (BA) programs struggle to create a clear identity for the value they can deliver and get pulled in multiple directions. Successful BA programs — th ose with...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Cloud Computing Road Map For Enterprise Architects

The purpose of this road map is to illustrate the implementation timing of the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technologies evaluated in Forrester's...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Architect For The Next Digital Decade

Vision: The EA Method Playbook

In the midst of continuing economic, political, competitive, and technological disruption over the next decade, your enterprise architecture (EA) practice will flounder unless it gains clear vision...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Use Effective EA Deliverables To Guide Change

Deliverables: The EA Practice Playbook

This report defines an approach for creating enterprise architecture (EA) deliverables as part of a high-performance EA practice. It is designed to help you create work products that matter to...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Select The Core Methods And Techniques You Need To Deliver BPM Excellence

Policy And Procedures: The Business Process Management Playbook

This report outlines the critical methods and techniques for business process management (BPM) initiatives. It represents a key component of Forrester's solution for BPM excellence. It is designed to...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Governance-Oriented SOA Products Correlate With Higher SOA Satisfaction

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:EA's Priority Is To Communicate And Connect With Value

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Barclays Bank's Consolidation Road Maps Focus On Process And Rendering

A Profile Of One Of The Winners Of The InfoWorld/Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award

Forrester teamed up with InfoWorld to identify five leading EA organizations using practices that yield measurable business value. In large organizations such as Barclays Bank, which spans 50...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: Logistics Company Aligns The Application Portfolio With Business Strategy

A logistics company had grown through acquisition, and due to a narrow enterprise architecture (EA) focus, weak governance, and troublesome politics, its former EA practice was largely ineffective....

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:Examples Of Documentation On Infrastructure Framework For Technology Standards

Do you have any examples of a document where the infrastructure framework was organized into sections?

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:Can You Please Provide Definitions For Application, Service, And Technology?

I am looking for some basic but important definitions in the context of my road map work. For example: application service technology. A definition of application might be: An application is a...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Profile Of Corporately Supported EA Groups

Tactics For Improving Corporate Management's Support For EA In Large Firms

As a key strategic entity in any large firm, the enterprise architecture (EA) group requires a strong positive relationship with the ultimate decision-makers — the corporate management...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Staffing For Social Business And Collaboration Success

Skills And Staffing: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

All too often, IT approaches staffing for social business and collaboration initiatives as it would other IT-led projects. With a focus on providing the best technical solution possible, the...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Organizations Doing More SOA Governance Are More Satisfied With SOA

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Purchasing The Building Blocks For Data Management

Tools And Technology: The Data Management Playbook

Today's enterprise data architecture is changing to accommodate models and definitions that are frequently abstracted from data sources, federated sources, and data analytics performed during the...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Using Tools And Technology For Business Architecture Programs

Tools And Technologies: The Business Architecture Playbook

Business architecture (BA) programs rely on a set of models and methods that often benefit from being linked to each other and to other external data sources. For some enterprise architects,...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Use Forrester's Architecture Review Tool Kit To Advance Your EA Program

Materials To Implement A Scalable Project Architecture Review Process

Project architecture review is an essential practice EA teams should use to advance enterprise architecture strategies. A well-designed and transparent review process provides a counterbalance to...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Future Of Solution Architecture: Six Business Design Focal Points

Move From Application And Outsourcing Silos Toward Building Your Business

Borrowing words from science fiction writer William Gibson: The future of solution architecture is here — it's just not yet evenly distributed or highly integrated. Even with a long list of...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Questions To Facilitate A Strategic Needs Discussion

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, Q2 2011

Mega International, Troux Technologies, Software AG, And Alfabet Lead This Upcoming Category

Forrester evaluated 10 of the leading enterprise architecture management suite (EAMS) vendors across 89 criteria and found that Mega International (Mega), Troux Technologies, Software AG, and alfabet...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:Can You Please Recommend Some Enterprise Architecture Reference Books?

Please recommend the top two or three reference manuals or books on the subject of enterprise architecture (EA) for an information technology group to use as a team study guide. The purpose of the...